marmalade???

[beer gut]

Hi everyone i have a bit of a strange question.Iam making a powerfull I.P.A and i want to add a orange taste to this ale.Iam going to use hops to help with this orange taste but i was thinking of adding some organic marmalade to my FV vessel. Do you think that this would work? i have never used marmalade before in my brews and i thought this would be a good way of getting the orange taste into my brew, what do the experts think?

[trucker5774]

I'm sure it has been done (why don't we call it orange jam? ) I guess it will give something but I would be guessing at quantities and when to add it. I have use the zest of 4 oranges for the last 30 mins of the boil. I like cascade or amarillo hops in such a brew

[dave-o]

Funny you should say that.

I had intended to add some sugar to my last brew, but found that someone had forgotten to buy sugar. We had a jar of marmalade that no-none was ever going to eat, so I whacked that in the boil.

The brew is fine, but doesn't have any orange taste.

For natural flavours to come through in a beer you really have to load it. I recommend the zest of fresh oranges, but you need a lot. I zested 6 oranges for my choc orange ale and it wasn't really very noticable. Zest at least 10, possibly 20, if you want an orange taste.

[beer gut]

Hi and thanx for the advice, iam also thinking of adding some orange blossom to the boil and maybe some brupaks orange peel, what do you think? i was thinking of using crystal hop as a finishing hop with some first gold,amarillo as finishing and main boil hops to realy help with the orange taste.I thought the maramlade will just help with the orange taste.

[dave-o]

To be honest, you would need to add so much marmalade to get a noticable flavour from it that you would probably be using about 2kg of sugar.

The brupaks stuff should do the trick but don't expect it to be that orangey.

[beer gut]

To be honest the orange is going to be a scondery taste, but i think if i add orange blossom,brupaks oranage peel, also the orangey hops it should all add up and give that orangey secondery taste i hope.

[Mothman]

I once added 1lb of black treacle (instead of Golden Syrup) and got orange (colour) Beer the flavour was different too

[dave-o]

Yeah, black treacle's great in beers, and the flavour does come through quite nicely too.